Activities of the Sharia court of the Orenburg Muftiate in the Kazakh steppe

Abstract

In this article, the author analyzes the activities of the Sharia court of the Orenburg Muftiate during the time of the Russian Empire. In particular, they examined the casiatic activities of the mullahs, the competence of the court of appeal of the Orenburg Muftiate, the management of the Sharia judicial system through the civil laws of the empire, the particularities of coordination and its manifestation in Kazakh society. An analysis of Б.А. Мирзагелдиев, Р.М. Мухаметшин 100 Вестник Карагандинского университета the casiatic activities of Muslim clerics provides an opportunity for in-depth study of Muslim governance in Kazakhstan. During the study of the topic, it was found that the activities of the imperial Sharia judicial system are much narrower than the Casiatic activities in Islamic history. In addition, the author emphasizes the active work of the mullahs of Petropavlovsk, Kokchetav and Ust-Kamenogorsk in the Kazakh steppe and notes that in the cases they examined, issues such as marriage, especially issues of forced marriage and ransom for the bride in the form of cattle, were basic. However, the presence in the archives of numerous documents not put into scientific circulation and the paucity of domestic studies on this topic indicate that this topic has not been fully disclosed. Therefore, the author proposes that this topic requires further research